In Pursuit of Hope: A Guide for the Seeker

Time for Reflection

Arthur Lyon Dahl
International Environment Forum
Presented at the opening of the Scottish Parliament
Tuesday 21 May 2019

The Presiding Officer (Ken Macintosh): Good afternoon. The first item of business
is time for reflection. Our time for reflection leader is Professor Arthur Lyon Dahl PhD,
who is the president of the International Environment Forum.

IEF member Joachim Monkelbaan and his partners in the Sustainability Leadership Lab were one of the winners of the Educator's Challenge of the Global Challenges Foundation on 16 May 2019. This is the second time that IEF members have won prizes from the Global Challenges Foundation.

IEF and Biodiversity

Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Biodiversity is in Crisis
Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’
Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’
‘Transformative changes’ needed to restore and protect nature
Opposition from vested interests can be overcome for public good
1,000,000 species threatened with extinction

IEF in the Netherlands

The International Environment Forum organized a lecture at Wageningen University in the
Netherlands on 24 April 2019 with IEF President Arthur Dahl speaking on "Global Governance
for the 21st Century". The lecture was arranged by Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, who teaches
at the university, and who also held a seminar on science and religion, and organized a
workshop on quantifying the unquantifiable looking at how to measure people's relationship
to nature and biodiversity.